By Rocky Ngalob FOR four years now, I have sat behind the less-occupied table at the NCIP-CAR office, dissecting papers on Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes. As the FPIC Focal for the region, I am barred from participating in the conduct of the Free Prior and Informed [...]
IN an effort to capacitate public school teachers on different aspects of indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices (IKSP), the Ifugao State University (IFSU) conducted a two-day seminar on Ifugao textiles at the Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) Center at Kiangan, Ifugao from September 9-10, 2021. Marlon M. Martin, chief operations officer [...]
THE Baguio City Council has approved on third and final reading an ordinance institutionalizing the Session Road History and Heritage Festival. To be conducted over the course of multiple Sundays, starting the third Sunday of April until the second Sunday of June, the festival intends to highlight the history of [...]
THEY still find time to play music together although many of them are successful in their selected fields. More than a dozen have migrated to the USA in search of better opportunities and protection in “Uncle Sam’s Arms” while the rest of the bunch preferred to be busy with [...]
IN 1911, two years after Baguio was chartered into a city, the American colonial government decided to build a railroad leading to this hill station. The project was then known as the Aringay-Baguio Line. It was supposed to complement the Benguet Road which would later be known as Kennon Road. [...]
By Marilou Guieb PLANTITOS and plantitas. Buzzwords of the century and perhaps the happy words on which many a man and a woman have anchored their sanity in the midst of the gloom the pandemic has brought. Or perhaps it can be called the secret of finding joy - [...]
LAST July, Baguio boy John Silva had his exhibit at the Bencab Museum in Asin. Being the executive director and curator of Ortigas Foundation Library, Silva showed some of the Cordillera covers of that wonderful “peacetime” magazine called the Philippine Magazine. While cleaning up the books and periodicals of the [...]
“MOMMY, did you know that there was a prehistoric frog that was so big, it is thought to have eaten small dinosaurs?” I pondered over that fact for a few seconds. “That is one scary frog,” I replied. My eight-year-old son is fascinated with the natural world. Before he could [...]
Cordilleran Youth Center on International Youth Day 2021 THIS year's International Youth Day revolves around youth participation in advocating innovative and more sustainable means of maintaining our food systems. The pandemic has revealed multiple problems that arose in attempts to sustain food supply throughout the entire globe where it has [...]
IF not the beach, then Baguio. Luzon and National Capital Region (NCR) tourists want more nature in their lives, a recent survey reveals. EON Trust Central, in partnership with the market research firm Tangere, conducted a study titled " Zooming in on the Filipino Traveler," which surveyed respondents on their [...]
